Emerging issues in peripheral nerve repair

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 7, Issue 29, 2012, Pages 2267-2272

  Geuna, Stefano ^a   Tos, Pierluigi ^b   Battiston, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial hollow tubes; Biomaterials; Cell and tissue transplantation; Gene therapy; Microsurgery; Muscle vein combined tubes; Nerve reconstruction; Neural regeneration; Non nervous guides; Peripheral nervous system; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; CHITOSAN; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; MUSCLE GRAFT; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PROSTHESIS; SCHWANN CELL; SILASTIC TUBE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN AUTOGRAFT;

EID: 84884140689     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: 18767958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2012.29.004     Document Type: Article

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